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Corey
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| Posted 4/20/2010 12:20 PM (GMT -6) |   | | http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/04/munger_on_love.html
This was a really interesting discussion to me. The question was posed (@ 7:10), "Imagine you run a restaurant in New York City and you have potatoes on the menu and never want to worry about them not being available. Now, there's a farmer in Idaho who grows potatoes. Do you want the farmer to be motivated out of love to provide the potatoes to New Yorkers, or do you want him motivated by profit?"
I was surprised to hear the economics professor answer, "I want them motivated out of love."
Interesting. Think of how much more efficiently a "Kingdom" economy might actually function. Then pray for it to be "on earth as it is in heaven".
I've got so many thoughts here. If there's anything I've learned over the recent years and the trials I've been through, it's that there's always oil in the lamp, so to speak. Once you start to live in the reality that you can never truly be depleted, that there's nothing that can be done to you that truly leaves you "screwed", then you're free to live a little crazy. You're free to not waste time and energy trying to protect yourself.
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One Love
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| Posted 4/20/2010 12:43 PM (GMT -6) | | Corey:
Once you start to live in the reality that you can never truly be depleted, that there's nothing that can be done to you that truly leaves you "screwed", then you're free to live a little crazy. Your free to not waste time and energy trying to protect yourself.
Yeah. When that realization becomes life, we are free to spend ourselves for others who are actively trying to do you harm...without our ego defensive drives for self-gratification and self-preservation going haywires. We can truly love self-sacrificially.
In this positive mode, through an extension of reciprocity, love chooses to embrace death as its opposite; death is the essential no-thingness which underlies and pervades all of human existence and as such it purifies it for "works of Love." It is by recognition and appropriation of one's existential no-thingness [OL's Note: Andrew Murrays "humility" ] that such works can become the eternal works of God's love in the context of human existence. To choose for God's love, then, entails implicitly choosing for one's own death. By faith, death is transformed from being a mark of despair and meaninglessness into a vehicle of grace and an enlargement of God's love. Our humanity is also enlarged because in this faith we love beyond the fear of death, which ordinarily restricts ethical behavior to survival and the short-term goods of one's own life span. Only when death is incorporated into oneself and into the center of one's choices can one love the neighbor who brings death--the stranger and the enemy.
James Loder
The Knight's Move
Pages 109-110
Thanks for this, Corey. Sounds good...
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 4/20/2010 12:56:23 PM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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